The Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship
was established in 2003 with major support from The Berkshire Eagle, the North Adams Transcript and friends
of Daniel Pearl, to benefit Berkshire-area students who intend to major in
journalism or music.

ABOUT DANIEL
PEARL

Daniel Pearl was a reporter for The Wall
Street Journal who was kidnapped and killed, at the age of 38, by terrorists in
Pakistan
early in 2002.He began his career with
stints as a reporter at both the Transcript and The Eagle between 1986 and
1990, after graduating from StanfordUniversity.

He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1990,
and worked in its Atlanta, Washington,
London and Paris
bureaus.In 2000 he was appointed chief
of The Journal’s South Asia Bureau in Bombay,
India.

At the time of his death, Pearl
had been seeking an interview with a shadowy Islamic leader to obtain
information about terrorist organizations in Pakistan.Those who promised to arrange the interview
instead kidnapped and killed him.

While Pearl’s career was in journalism, he was a
gifted musician, trained as a classical violinist.He also played guitar and mandolin, and while
living in the Berkshires he performed in a bluegrass band.

THE
SCHOLARSHIP

The $1,000 award will be given to a
student who intends to study and pursue a career in either journalism or
music.

Eligibility is limited to residents of BerkshireCounty
or areas outside the county where home delivery of either The Eagle or the
Transcript is available.For complete
eligibility standards please refer to the guidelines.

Guidelines and applications may be downloaded here, or can be obtained
from area high school guidance offices.

If your questions are not answered in the
guidelines on this site, please contact Martin C. Langeveld,
802-380-0226 or newsafternewspapers@gmail.com.

DONATIONS

The Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship continues to support from The Berkshire Eagle and also welcomes support from “friends of Danny” and others interested.Donations may be sent payable to the Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship c/o Martin C. Langeveld, 131 Woodland Rd., Vernon, VT05354.Donations are tax deductible; the fund is
invested with the Daniel Pearl Foundation of Encino, CA, a qualified 501(c)3 charitable foundation.